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Lowry House hosts childrens’ art exhibition

At 10am on Wednesday 19th July, pupils from Buille Hill School in Salford launched their very first exhibition of artwork at a dedicated outdoor gallery, in the heart of Manchester’s city centre. The gallery, one of the largest of its type ever seen in the city, was created at Lowry House on Spring Gardens which, North of England property firm, Bruntwood is currently turning into state of the art office space.

The gallery, which is available for everyone to view, consists of 15 pieces of the children’s artwork and will be on display until the building completes in January of next year. Art teacher Claire Blackett, from Buille Hill School was there to help launch the exhibition, commented, “Buille Hill School provides educational development for under privileged children in the city of Salford and focuses heavily on helping children develop their creative skills. We are exceptionally proud of the work the children have been producing recently and I hope that everyone who is lucky enough to see it will agree.”

Also on hand were pupils from Buille Hill who were responsible for creating some of the artwork, all of whom were justifiably proud and excited at seeing their artwork displayed in public. One of the pupils, John Smith, couldn’t believe his work had made onto the outdoor gallery. “It’s funny to see my art displayed like this and I think it’s going to take some getting used to”, he said, “but I can’t wait to get my mum and dad down to see it for themselves, I think they’re going to love it.”

The art gallery makes use of contractor’s hoarding that surrounds the perimeter of Lowry House, which Bruntwood are currently in the process of completely redeveloping. The end result will be state of the art offices offering a huge range of services from conventional office space, through to meeting room hire, serviced offices and conference facilities. The building is scheduled to be complete in January 2006, at which point the exhibition will come to a close.

Marketing Manager Matt Leigh, who helped facilitate the gallery, was also there to help launch the exhibition commented, “Everything about the product is going to be different, so we thought we apply the same theory to the hoarding. Ordinarily, we would have applied a standard sales message, but the link with LS Lowry was too good to miss. Consequently, we decided that it would be great to give the next generation of local artists the opportunity to showcase their work.”

For more information, please call Matt Leigh on 0161 237 3883.